Improvement in wire wheels



G. D. DUDLEY.

A Wire-Wheels. No.147 '050, Paxentedfeb.'s,1s74.

UNITED STATES PATENT CFEICE.

GEORGE D. DDLEY, OF LOYELL, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO EDVVD. l. WOODS, DANIEL SIIERWOOD, AND C. II. LATHAM, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT INV WIRE WHEELS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 147,050, dated February 3, 1874; application filed June 27, 1873.

To all whom it muy concern:

Beit known that I, GEORGE l). DUDLEY, of Lowell, in the county ot' Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a' new and Improved Vire IVheel, of which the following is a speeication:

M y invention relates t0 wheels made of wire; and consists in anovel manner of constructing a wheel from wire, and has for its object alight, neat, cheap7 and useful wheel, which maT be used for a great variety of purposesas, for instance, in rotary wire casters, toy carriages, wheels, &c.

Figure l is a side elevation of the wheels. Fig. 2 is an edge View of the wheels, showing the sha-ft with its extremities in different conditions; and Fig. 3 shows a front view of the right-hand end of 2.

A A represent a ring of wire, which serves as the rim of the wheel. B B represent the arms, composed of strands of wire which are twisted up from the center of the wheel a short distance in a compound twist, c a., are then separated, as shown atb b, and carried to the rim A, to which they are properly secured. C represents the shaft, constructed in this instance of four wires, c c c c, but which ma)v consist of an indenite number of wires. The

manner of securing or uniting1 the wheel to the shaft will be readily perceived by reference to Figs. 2 and 3. The Vwires constituting the shaft are twisted together to the desired distance between the two wheels, and being then separated at each extremity of the shaft, as seen at c c c c, Figs. 2 and 3, the arms of the wheels are then inserted between the wires c c c c, which are then twisted together to form the continuation of the shaft outside ofthe wheels, which are thus firmly secured to the sha-ft by being intertwisted with the wires, constituting it as shown in the left-hand portion of Fig. 2.

After the wheels are complete thev are immersed in a metallic bath usually of tin, which imparts to them a permanently-bright appearance, and also serves to fill the interstices with 

